Director, Office of Research Training and Special Programs
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, United States
LeShawndra Price, Ph.D., Director of the Office of Research Training and Special Programs (ORTSP) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is a leading expert in the fields of health equity, global health, and implementation science, with more than 20 years of experience at the NIH. She supports research training programs to develop the next generation of researchers and physician scientists, including promoting diversity within the biomedical research workforce, within NIAID’s mission areas. Dr. Price also manages NIAID’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs and implements the Institute’s international outreach and compliance program, including overseeing the NIAID Global Infectious Disease Research Administration Award for Low- and Middle-Income Country Institutions (G11).
In partnership with academic medical centers and universities, ministries of health, NGOs, and other research institutions, Dr. Price has built collaborative research programs across multiple sectors with the aim of reducing disease in vulnerable populations and improving healthcare delivery around the world. Her work has spanned the entire lifespan from childhood to adulthood across infectious diseases, and several chronic diseases, including mental health, substance abuse, and heart, lung, and blood diseases. Immediately prior to joining NIAID, Dr. Price was Chief of the Health Inequities and Global Health Branch at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, where she developed the Institute’s strategy to build a transdisciplinary research portfolio focused on implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of evidence-based interventions targeted at reducing health inequities across the lifespan in low resource settings in the U.S. and globally. In addition, Dr. Price previously served as Project Scientist for a National Institute of Mental Health initiative designed to improve treatments and expand access to mental health care in more than 20 low- and middle-income countries. She was also one of the NIH’s coordinators of the Mental Health Across the Lifespan Initiative, a collaboration between the NIH and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority to raise awareness about mental health conditions affecting women and their families. Dr. Price has held corporate positions with Carolina Power and Light Energy & Environmental Center, Burroughs-Wellcome (now Glaxo Smith Kline), Research and Evaluation Associates, and within academia at both Research I institutions and a Historically Black University.
After receiving her B.A. degree in Psychology with Honors from Wake Forest University, Dr. Price attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
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